Why is the onus on the NYPD to show respect to a Mayor who has not earned it?

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has asked, make that warned, the Rank and File of the NYPD not to turn their backs on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Sunday!
Why is it though, that the onus is on the NYPD to show 'respect' for a Mayor who has done nothing through his words and actions but disrespect them?

Where exactly has the sincere and heartfelt apology from this Mayor been for his race baiting rhetoric?

Rhetoric that, in combination with the words of Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama administration 'race czar' Al Sharpton, has led to what sadly appears to be a nationwide open season on police officers?

For tomorrows funeral of NYPD Police Officer Wenjian Liu, NYC Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has issued the following statement 'requesting' that the Rank and File of the NYPD not turn their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio...

“I issue no mandates and I make no threats of discipline. But I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it.”

These men and women of the NYPD risk their collective lives each and every day keeping New York City safe and who, at the very least, deserve that the Mayor of NYC not make their jobs substantially more dangerous.

But sadly they have not even received the very least from de Blasio!

Instead they hear him tell the story of how he warns his son Dante to fear the police or they are forced to sit by and watch as he reappoints Laura Johnson to the bench after she had released without bail two men who had 'allegedly' threatened police officers mere days after two members of the NYPD had been executed.

What respect has de Blasio shown the NYPD? None!

And to the Mayor, his minions at the New York Times and Bill Bratton, respect is something that is earned and once gone, is extremely difficult to earn back.

That's true in the best of circumstances where lives are not on the line.

It's exponentially more difficult in the situation between the NYPD and a Mayor whose actions speak much louder than his empty words!

And yet, other than his empty and meaningless rhetoric, de Blasio has done nothing to show the Rank and File that he is anything but who they thought he was.

These brave women of the NYPD need to do what they have to do come Sunday and they deserve a leader much better than the one they currently have living in Gracie Mansion!